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This week, as we celebrate Nurses Week around the world, it’s a good time to reflect on the vital, yet often hidden, role that nurses play in our world. Most people are familiar with the work nurses do in hospitals and medical offices but may not know about the many other ways and places that nurses are contributing to the health and well-being of the planet.

Here are some examples of the major contributions that nurses make. 

1. Nurses are some of the first professionals to respond to disasters domestically and around the world. They do this through U.S. government agencies, the military, the American Red Cross, and other humanitarian groups.
2. Many nurses volunteer time each year, including their own vacation time, to provide non-emergency health services such as health education to the underprivileged and underserved around the world. Nurses also train locals in these areas to provide health services in their own communities.
3. Nurses work with the homeless population often visiting them where they live under bridges, in shelters, in parks, in tent cities, and on the street. They do this work through local public health departments, clinics, and outreach programs.
4. In programs such as the Nurse-Family Partnership, nurses work with low-income first-time mothers, many of whom are teenagers and single, during pregnancy, birth and for two-years following birth. Their work results in improved health for both mother and baby as well as long-term economic stability for mother and child.
5. School nurses are caring for our nation’s children, many of whom have very serious medical, emotional, and family challenges. They treat life-threatening emergencies, avert health crisis situations, provide early detection of health issues, conduct health education, counsel, coach and so much more. School nurses are sometimes the only healthcare provider that a child and her/his family encounter.

These are just a few exemplifications of the life-saving, life-enhancing, and life-affirming work that nurses do. If you know a nurse or a nursing student, take the time to recognize them and let them know how much you appreciate all they do. If you are a nurse, my heartfelt wishes to you for stepping up to the plate every day and doing the hard work that needs to be done, and doing it with compassion, intelligence, great skill, and finesse. You do make a difference — in fact, all the difference in the world.

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Can nurse’s discipline be barrier to continuing nursing education?

A reader who has been a #nurse since 2007 wrote about her termination from a previous job due to a HIPAA violation.

The violation was reported to the state board of nursing. She was disciplined and required to pay a fine and take several classes. She successfully did both.

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The #nurse applied to an RN-to-BSN program but said she was not accepted because of her discipline by the state board of #nursing. She wondered if she could continue her education and if all #nursing education programs hesitate to accept RNs who have been disciplined.

She did not specify whether the RN-to-BSN program was in a private or public academic institution or if she had read the school student handbook and its admission policy. Both are important.

What happens at a private institution

If the #nursing program was a private education program, the parameters of how it treats applicants is established by the program or the school and is reflected in its admission policy and other school publications.

These school publications can be seen by the law as forming an “express” or “implied” contract with the student, and if they’re not adhered to by the program or school, the rejected applicant can file a lawsuit alleging a breach of contract.

In addition, the private program must conform with any conditions prohibiting discrimination or bias when receiving funds from the state or federal government.

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It also must comply with state and federal law prohibiting discrimination, including Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which applies to places of “public accommodation” (e.g., a nursing educational program) that are privately owned.

If, in contrast, the academic program was a public one, the program must comply with state and federal constitutional mandates, and cannot discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, gender or religion.

Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, a person who has a disability and is otherwise qualified cannot be discriminated against either.

What happens at a public institution

Public academic programs also are required to conform with conditions prohibiting discrimination or bias when state and federal funds are granted to the program.

I could not find an online site that listed which RN-to-BSN #nursing_education programs would not admit a licensed RN to their programs because of a board of nursing discipline. More likely than not, the rejection this RN experienced is unique to the particular program to which she applied.

The RN also did not include any reason for not being accepted into the program other than the disciplinary action by her state board of nursing. Certainly, any discipline may have a collateral effect such as this one.

Although a HIPAA violation is not to be taken lightly and the board of nursing’s authority to discipline the RN was made within the parameters of the state’s #nurse_practice act and rules, I wonder if there was another reason she was not accepted.

Did she have a disability? Was the decision based on her religious beliefs not being compatible with the program being based on a particular religion?

What was her grade point average? Was the decision not to admit her by the #nursing_program based on its established admission policy?

Without knowing more, we will never have the answers to these and other questions about the RN’s rejection. Even so, her experience provides guidance to you when you apply for acceptance into a #nursing_education_program.

Some of those guidelines include:

• Be certain to obtain and read all of the #nursing_program and school’s published materials, including the student handbook and admission policy, whether through a hard copy or online.
• Be honest when asked about any #state_board_of_nursing disciplines or other adverse actions taken by any professional associations or employers in your application.
• Learn about what rights you have as a student when in a public or private #nursing_education program through research online, a CE course or consultation with a #nurse attorney or attorney who practices education law and works with students or potential students.
• If applying to a private #nursing_education_program, determine if the program has a “disclaimer” on any of its publications that denies the formation of a contract with students.
• Seek advice from a #nurse attorney or an attorney who practices education law and represents applicants or students if you are not admitted to a program and feel the denial may be based on a discriminatory or other legally protected status.
• Frequently review your #nurse_practice act and rules and the #board_of_nursing’s authority to discipline you as a licensed RN.
• Be certain to only apply to accredited #nursing_education_programs and ones your state board of #nursing approves.

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Study shows #nurses’ scrubs become contaminated with bacteria in hospitals

Clothing worn by healthcare providers can become contaminated with bacteria, however having #nurses wear scrubs with antimicrobial properties did not prevent this bacterial contamination from occurring, according to a study published online in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

As part of the Antimicrobial Scrub Contamination and Transmission (ASCOT) Trial, researchers from Duke University Hospital, followed 40 #nurses who wore three different types of scrubs over three consecutive 12-hour shifts, taking a series of cultures from each #nurses’ clothing, patients, and the environment before and after each shift.

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“Healthcare providers must understand that they can become contaminated by their patients and the environment near patients,” said Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention at Duke University Medical Center and lead author of the study. “Although not effective, we looked to eliminate this risk for contamination by changing the material of #nurses’ scrubs.”

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In a random rotation, each #nurse wore traditional cotton-polyester scrubs, scrubs that contained silver-alloy embedded in its fibers, or another type of scrub treated with a combination of antibacterial materials. The #nurses did not know which scrubs they were wearing.

The researchers analyzed 2,919 cultures from bed rails, beds, and supply carts in each room and 2,185 cultures from the sleeve, abdomen and pocket of #nurses’ scrubs. No differences in contamination were found based on the type of scrubs worn.

Researchers identified new contamination during 33 percent, or 39 of 120 shifts. Scrubs became newly contaminated with bacteria during 16 percent, or 19 out of 120, shifts studied, including three cases of contamination of #nurses’ scrubs while caring for patients on contact precautions where patients were known to be infected with drug-resistant bacteria and personnel entering the room were required to put on gloves and gowns. The mostly commonly transmitted pathogen was Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA and methicillin susceptible S. aureus. The #nurses in the study worked in medical and surgical intensive care units, caring for one to two patients per shift.

“There is no such thing as a sterile environment,” said Anderson. “Bacteria and pathogens will always be in the environment. Hospitals need to create and use protocols for improved cleaning of the #healthcare environment, and patients and family members should feel empowered to ask #healthcare providers if they are doing everything they can to keep their loved one from being exposed to bacteria in the environment.”

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